LETTER: Get informed on Obamacare

Published: Monday, January 28, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.

Last Modified: Friday, January 25, 2013 at 7:01 p.m.

Hooray for Chick-fil-A! They have said they cannot comply with the federal health care mandate to have their employees’ insurance supply free contraceptives and abortion-causing drugs. They join other institutions, health care facilities, businesses and agencies in stating that this is against their freedom of conscience and it will drive up their cost of insurance.

In the 40 years since Roe vs. Wade, 55 million babies have been aborted. Taxpayers provide Planned Parenthood with $454,000,000, nearly half a billion dollars, and Planned Parenthood has done 334,000 abortions.

This is the same as putting guns to the heads of those babies.

Many times women who have abortions are permanently scarred emotionally and never recover.

As for those who say that it is a health issue for women, may I say, at the risk of sounding old-fashioned, that pregnancy is preventable. It is not inherited or spread by a virus or bacteria like a disease.

Maybe Obamacare has one or two good points, but when the general public sees the other parts that will come into effect in 2013 and 2014, they will see just how little the government wants to help you and how much the government wants to control you and every citizen, especially the elderly.

It would be wise to inform yourself about the rest of the bill. Just ask medical professionals how they like the new health care law.

<p>Hooray for Chick-fil-A! They have said they cannot comply with the federal health care mandate to have their employees' insurance supply free contraceptives and abortion-causing drugs. They join other institutions, health care facilities, businesses and agencies in stating that this is against their freedom of conscience and it will drive up their cost of insurance. </p><p>In the 40 years since Roe vs. Wade, 55 million babies have been aborted. Taxpayers provide Planned Parenthood with $454,000,000, nearly half a billion dollars, and Planned Parenthood has done 334,000 abortions. </p><p>This is the same as putting guns to the heads of those babies. </p><p>Many times women who have abortions are permanently scarred emotionally and never recover. </p><p>As for those who say that it is a health issue for women, may I say, at the risk of sounding old-fashioned, that pregnancy is preventable. It is not inherited or spread by a virus or bacteria like a disease.</p><p>Maybe Obamacare has one or two good points, but when the general public sees the other parts that will come into effect in 2013 and 2014, they will see just how little the government wants to help you and how much the government wants to control you and every citizen, especially the elderly. </p><p>It would be wise to inform yourself about the rest of the bill. Just ask medical professionals how they like the new health care law.</p><p>Eleanor Robertson</p><p>Hokes Bluff</p>